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Kati Hovey Rangel

@katirangel.bsky.social
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Retired teacher. Granny. Baseball enthusiast. No DMs please.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Heartbreaking. What are we doing? 😕🇺🇸
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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Seriously: If this piece of shit is allowed to be unbothered at the thought of our deaths then we're allowed to be unbothered at the thought of his. www.joemygod.com/2026/03/trum...
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Trump Shrugs At US Deaths: "Some People Will Die" - Joe.My.God.
TIME Magazine reports: In his phone call with TIME, Trump described the mission as preventative. “America First is really about keeping America healthy and well, and not having other countries, you kn...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/01/2026
Statement from the Minnesota Timberwolves team chaplain with alt text (ht @gregolear.bsky.social)
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S3AT
STATEMENT FROM MATT MOBERG, CHAPLAIN OF THE
MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES

IF YOU'RE A CHURCH POSTING
PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND UNITY TODAY

WHILE MY CITY BLEEDS IN THE STREET, MISS ME WITH THAT SOFTNESS YOU ONLY WEAR
WHEN IT COSTS YOU NOTHING.
DON'T DRESS AVOIDANCE UP AS HOLINESS.
DON'T CALL SILENCE "PEACEMAKING."
DON'T LIGHT A CANDLE AND THINK IT SUBSTITUTES FOR SHOWING UP.
TONIGHT AN ICE AGENT TOOK A PHOTO OF ME NEXT TO MY CAR,
LOOKED ME IN THE EYE AND TOLD ME,
"WE'LL BE SEEING YOU SOON."
NOT METAPHOR.
NOT HYPERBOLE.
A THREAT DRESSED UP IN A BADGE AND A PAYCHECK.
PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY ON SOMEONE'S NECK.
PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED.
UNITY ISN'T NEUTRAL.
UNITY THAT REFUSES TO NAME VIOLENCE IS JUST LOYALTY TO THE ONES HOLDING THE WEAPONS.
STOP USING SCRIPTURE LIKE CHLOROFORM.
STOP CALLING YOUR FEAR "WISDOM."
STOP PRETENDING JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE PREACHED GOOD VIBES AND PERSONAL GROWTH.
YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE
LIKE A LULLABY,
WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE.
YOU DON'T GET TO ASK GOD TO
"HEAL THE LAND"
IF YOU WON'T EVEN LOOK AT THE WOUND.
THERE IS A KIND OF PEACE THAT ONLY EXISTS
BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO TELL THE TRUTH.
THAT PEACE IS A LIE. AND LIES DON'T GROW ANYTHING WORTH SAVING.
THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM.
THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT.
AND SOMETIMES THE MOST FAITHFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS STOP PRAYING AROUND THE PAIN AND START STANDING INSIDE IT.
IF THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE-GOOD.
GROWTH ALWAYS IS.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Sadly, the Biden Administration officials who initiated this partnership under the Inflation Reduction Act couldn’t be present. 😏 $LLY $NVO
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Archdiocese of Chicago condemns Trump's immigration crackdown: "Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear—the church stands with migrants."
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/10/2025
NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants. "What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
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Kati Hovey Rangel @katirangel.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
So proud of Clayton, NC! #NoKings
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.” If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters." On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident. Real macho stuff.
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A child dies of malnutrition every 15 seconds, as 185,535 boxes of special food for starving children are stacked in a warehouse in Rhode Island, paid for by American taxpayers. After shutting USAID, the Trump administration is just sitting on the boxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
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Opinion | ‘The U.S. Cannot Solve All the World’s Problems’
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Just remembering how Joe Biden forgiving some student loans was taking the power of the presidency too far.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
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USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks
The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
You should read this in ALL CAPS JVL voice. Because that's how I wrote it. www.thebulwark.com/p/leave-tran...
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Leave Trans People Alone: A Rant
“Trans sports” isn’t an actual problem in the real world. The problem is that life is hard. Don’t make it harder.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Those who know me know I was highly critical of what I saw as some of the rhetorical excesses of the campus protests. Khalil and I wld probably get into a spat immediately. It's all the more important for people who believe as I do to say clearly, the protections of the law are for everyone.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"The Trump administration is trying to hide plans to hand off $400 million in taxpayer funds to Tesla, the electric car company owned by the world’s richest man—Trump supporter Elon Musk." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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State Department buries massive payout to Tesla after public outcry
The Trump administration is trying to hide plans to hand off $400 million in taxpayer funds to Tesla, the electric car company owned by the world’s richest man—Trump supporter Elon Musk. On ...
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Kati Hovey Rangel @katirangel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
OMG
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“it’s probably a black person’s fault this bad thing happened” as a reflexive explanation is just a racist statement, there’s not a level of substantiation that makes it not racist bsky.app/profile/pgou...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Man, is Chuck Schumer not ready for this moment.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/01/2025
Everything is so damn stupid.
Trump Truth Social post: "The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!!"California Department of Water Resources tweet: "The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days. State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful."Tweet from California state senator Mike McGuire: "🚨 BS Alert 🚨 

First off, shocker, water from the Pacific Northwest doesn’t flow to the Central Valley. 

Second, federal water pumps were down for repair and are now back on.

Third, rest assured, the military has not invaded the delta.

Facts are hard."
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Weird watching inauguration coverage focused so much on the pomp, treating much of this as normal, versus pointing out the next POTUS is an insurrection-inciting, twice-impeached, convicted felon taking office after waging a massive disinfo campaign on country w/help of billionaires like Elon Musk.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/12/2024
If we protect the most vulnerable among us, which at the moment is trans women of color, then maybe we will all get free. We are never going to get free by “choosing our battles” and ignoring that the entire country has trained its ire at one percent of the population. I implore you to be better.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is the first real moral test of Trump's 2nd presidency Can Dems - and the rest of us - embrace the humanity of the transgender community? Or will their rights be sacrificed for focus group politics? A lot rides on getting this right My new column🎁 share.inquirer.com/jD9qxi
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Transgender wars are a test of whether our humanity can trump focus-group politics | Will Bunch
Whether hate-filled TV ads helped elect Trump is no reason to stop fighting for the humanity of 1 million transgender Americans.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is an echo of the general election. The trans Democrat is blamed for "sparking" the crisis despite the fact she did nothing beyond be herself. Before she arrived to DC, or made any demands, the GOP preemptively turned her identity into a political issue. So, who is doing identity politics?
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
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RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive
YouTube video by MSNBC
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
📌BREAKING: Absolutely gargantuan win in North Carolina where Democrats hold onto Supreme Court seat. A mere 625 votes made the difference in this one -- just in case you don't think every vote matters.
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Kati Hovey Rangel @katirangel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Some much needed optimism
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Kati Hovey Rangel @katirangel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Reskeet with a favorite book from your childhood
The Secret Garden by Francis Hidgson Burnett
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